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		stefan_ on June 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Behind the Tech with John Carmack: 5k Immersive Vi... Eh is it wasting memory bandwidth, sure, but let's not pretend a modern smartphone GPU is breaking much of a sweat rendering some 5k textures into a >x framebuffer.

cptskippy on June 19, 2018 [–]

If the video is streamed it's wasting internet bandwidth as well. If not then device storage.

High end mobile GPUs can handle 5k video at the expense of battery life but most GPUs can't.

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